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Forest Primeval: Poems

Forest Primeval: Poems

Francis, Vievee

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ISBN10: 0810132435
ISBN13: 9780810132436
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Published: Nov 30 2015
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Literary Award

Winner, 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Winner, 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the Poetry category
Finalist, 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize
Shortlist finalist, 2015 PEN Open Book Award for an exceptional book by an author of color

Another Anti-Pastoral, the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes words fail. With a bleat in [her] throat, the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with whom she is in dialogue. Vievee Francis's poems engage many of the same concerns as her poetic predecessors--faith in a secular age, the city and nature, aging, and beauty. Words certainly do not fail as Francis sets off into the wild world promised in the title. The wild here is not chaotic but rather free and finely attuned to its surroundings. The reader who joins her will emerge sensitized and changed by the enduring power of her work.

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